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disasters, social media and, use as label to discredit
35–37 news media, 24–27
Disinfo Lab, 57 in US history, 9–10
willingness of people to
Economist (magazine), 20 believe, 28–30
filter bubbles, 35
Facebook, 11, 23–24 First Draft News, 27
access to users’ private
data, 51–52 Gillmor, Dan, 30
acknowledges Russian Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 22–
hacking of platform, 53 23, 23
actions taken to halt González, Emma, 12, 12,
misinformation 56
campaigns, 54–55 Google, 36, 53, 56–57
algorithm used on, 38, 41 Gordon, Anton, 19
false articles/posts on, 5–6, Gromek, Chris, 20
14–15, 49 Guardian (newspaper),
number of active users on, 13–14
31
percentage of adults getting Hawkins, Zoe, 17–18
news through, 32 Hogg, David, 29, 29–30
use of AI by, 59 Horner, Paul, 15–16
FactCheck.org, 24, 70 Howard, Philip N., 31, 40,
fake news 48–49
definition of, 11–13 Hurricane Irma (2017), 35–36
impacts of, 17–19 Hurricane Sandy (2012), 36
on trust in media, 7–8 Hutchinson, Thomas, 9–10
motivations for creating,
14–17 India, fake news and mob
online, 4 violence in, 11
restrictions on, 59–61 information
social media and spread of, confirmation bias and
33–35 processing of, 35
sources of, 13–14, 15 ways to evaluate, 30, 69
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